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"\"&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_86247\\\" style=\\\"width: 850px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignright\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_137614_20130124__EB18111-scr.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_137614_20130124__EB18111-scr.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" title=\\\" Joffrey Pollet-Villard competing in Ski SuperPipe Men&amp;#039;s Elimination at X Games Aspen 2013. Photo: Eric Bakke\\/ESPN Images\\\" width=\\\"850\\\" height=\\\"566\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-86247\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_137614_20130124__EB18111-scr.jpg 850w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_137614_20130124__EB18111-scr-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_137614_20130124__EB18111-scr-135x90.jpg 135w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_137614_20130124__EB18111-scr-100x66.jpg 100w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_137614_20130124__EB18111-scr-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_137614_20130124__EB18111-scr-150x100.jpg 150w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt; Joffrey Pollet-Villard during Ski SuperPipe Men's Elimination at X Games Aspen 2013. Photo: Eric Bakke\\/ESPN Images&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;There\\u2019s been a lot of new talent dropping into slopestyle courses and halfpipes at big contests lately. Joffrey Pollet-Villard is one we\\u2019ll remember this winter after he made a big entrance in Aspen\\u2019s 22-foot pipe at Winter X Games. The 21 year old from Candide Thovex&amp;#8217;s hometown of La Clusaz, France, nabbed fifth with a run highlighted by huge lofty switch tricks, one enormous (23.5 feet high) alley-oop flatspin, and not a single double flip or cork. Word on the street was that he was the next Duncan Adams, except with even bigger airs. We decided to let the young Frenchie introduce himself and his approach to contests and halfpipes.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This was your first X Games final, right? How did you get in and how nervous were you?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;I did the Grand Prix at Copper and got 4th, and people got to look at my run, see that I go high, and say, \\u201cOh yeah, this kid can do the show.\\u201d &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;[At the X Games] I tried to keep mellow, like it was a regular thing. I tried not to put myself under pressure because I\\u2019m a really, really bad competitor. I did the qualification and made it into the final, and I was like, \\u201cOkay, that\\u2019s unbelievable for me.\\u201d \\u2026The X Games are a very different competition than all the other competitions. They\\u2019re very powerful.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.youtube.com\\/embed\\/enGeXmJNPok?enablejsapi=1\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"360\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; So how did you get yourself to relax during the finals?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Oh, I just wanted to have fun. I just wanted to say, \\u201cI stomped my run at X Games,\\u201d because that\\u2019s so much pressure to do that there.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you decide that that was the run you were going to do?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The other years, like the year before, I was trying to do dubs, but I decided that I didn\\u2019t like that; it wasn\\u2019t good for me. So I was just thinking about going huge, the tricks in my run are the tricks that I really like. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Many guys said \\u201cyou should do dubs\\u201d or whatever, and I think maybe I can try, but if it doesn\\u2019t look good, I don\\u2019t want to do it. I watch everyone, and some of their runs look like, not really&amp;#8230;not really beautiful, not impressive, even if there\\u2019s many dubs in it. So that\\u2019s why I just want to go huge and just wanna [get a reaction] like, \\u201cOh, that\\u2019s big! Oh, that\\u2019s scary!\\u201d and whatever [laughing].&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did you have a double you could land before you decided to do that run?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Uh, not yet. I did some switch alley-oop dub 9\\u2019s like Noah Bowman does, but not yet on pipe. But that\\u2019s the only one I wanna do\\u2026 A lot of guys were telling me that I could get a higher score if I did a dub, but for me it\\u2019s not always about the result\\u2014it\\u2019s about the pleasure.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;figure id=\\\"attachment_86249\\\" style=\\\"width: 850px\\\" class=\\\"wp-caption alignright\\\"&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_140153__045-scr.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powdermag.com\\/files\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_140153__045-scr.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" title=\\\" Joffrey Pollet-Villard at the Ski SuperPipe Final. Photo:Tom Zuccareno\\/ESPN Images\\\" width=\\\"850\\\" height=\\\"567\\\" class=\\\"size-full wp-image-86249\\\" srcset=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_140153__045-scr.jpg 850w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_140153__045-scr-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_140153__045-scr-134x90.jpg 134w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_140153__045-scr-100x66.jpg 100w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_140153__045-scr-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_140153__045-scr-150x100.jpg 150w\\\" sizes=\\\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=\\\"wp-caption-text\\\"&gt; Joffrey Pollet-Villard at the Ski SuperPipe Final. Photo:Tom Zuccareno\\/ESPN Images&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was it like being 23.5 feet out of the pipe on that third hit when everyone in the crowd went nuts?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;[Laughing] That was pretty scary. I landed my alley-oop flat five on all of my three runs, and every time I did it I thought I was going to land on the deck, so I was pretty nervous in the air. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;When I\\u2019m in the air I never know how I am, so when I checked my friend\\u2019s camera, I was just thinking, \\u201cOK, I\\u2019m stupid. I\\u2019m a part of the sun [laughing].\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;After your finals runs, a lot of people were saying that you put together a run that was a lot like what Duncan Adams has done\\u2014bigger and smoother and more just switch tricks\\u2014is that a guy you\\u2019ve been looking up to in pipe skiing?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Yeah, we talked about dubs when we were at the Dew Tour, and Duncan has always skied the pipe like that, pushing it the other way. So many guys in the last few years have stopped watching pipe because it\\u2019s just like you know what\\u2019s going on\\u2014double cork, right, left, and everything\\u2014so I think we have the same way to ski the pipe. Trying to push it going switch and try to go big and not do dubs one meter high. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How do you relate to other skiers on the French team, because Kevin Rolland\\u2019s run had four doubles in it, right?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Yeah, [laughing], I respect everybody\\u2019s run. I\\u2019m skiing with them, but it\\u2019s like another way of skiing. They\\u2019re doing mute dubs and dub cork 10\\u2019s and I\\u2019m just doing trash bag grabs. I go high and tweak as much as I can. It\\u2019s not the same thing.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;div style=\\\"font-size: 90%; text-align : center;\\\"&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.zapiks.fr\\/index.php?action=playerIframe&amp;amp;media_id=81159&amp;amp;width=640&amp;amp;height=360&amp;amp;autoStart=false\\\" width=\\\"640\\\" height=\\\"376\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" scrolling=\\\"no\\\"&gt;&lt;\\/iframe&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Did anyone say anything about your all-black outfit with skinny pants?&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Ah, yeah some guys just ask me,\\u201cWhy do you wear tight pants?\\u201d and everything. Now that\\u2019s all right because they like my way to ski. Pretty stoked they accept how I look. If I ride good it\\u2019s okay. &lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;I\\u2019ve been wearing tight pants since last season when I got dropped from my outerwear company, and I was like \\u201cYeah, f*ck it, I can wear what I want.\\u201d I want to find a nice outerwear company to sponsor me, though.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span itemprop=\\\"video\\\" itemscope itemtype=\\\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/VideoObject\\\"&gt;&lt;meta itemprop=\\\"name\\\" content=\\\"All 23.5 Feet With Joffrey Pollet-Villard\\\"&gt;&lt;meta itemprop=\\\"thumbnailURL\\\" content=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.powder.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2013\\/02\\/EI_137614_20130124__EB18111-scr.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;meta itemprop=\\\"description\\\" content=\\\"The French X Games rookie on going big, finding a tight pants sponsor, and not throwing doubles in competitions\\\"&gt;&lt;meta itemprop=\\\"uploadDate\\\" content=\\\"2013-02-05T06:34:22-08:00\\\"&gt;&lt;meta itemprop=\\\"embedURL\\\" content=\\\"https:\\/\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\/v\\/enGeXmJNPok\\\"&gt;&lt;meta itemprop=\\\"duration\\\" content=\\\"PT34S\\\"&gt;&lt;\\/span&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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